Comments on: Sony May “Monitor and Record” PSN Voice and Text Communicationshttp://www.gamefront.com/sony-may-monitor-and-record-psn-voice-and-text-communications/
Read the latest gaming news, get game downloads, mods, patches, and watch game videos at Game Front.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 06:44:34 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1By: jpetrykhttp://www.gamefront.com/sony-may-monitor-and-record-psn-voice-and-text-communications/#comment-401893
jpetrykTue, 12 Nov 2013 19:36:07 +0000http://www.gamefront.com/?p=252256#comment-401893If this was an xbox announcement, everyone would be hating on microsoft right now. Sony gets away with so much crap.If this was an xbox announcement, everyone would be hating on microsoft right now. Sony gets away with so much crap.
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psycrosTue, 12 Nov 2013 19:11:53 +0000http://www.gamefront.com/?p=252256#comment-401885As long as there's no "mission creep" and Sony uses this capability for NOTHING MORE THAN IT STATES then I think most people would have no problem with it. Sony could put everyone at ease by detailing how it will limit its use of the recorded content solely for TOS and law enforcement purposes unless it receives specific permission from the user(s) in question.As long as there’s no “mission creep” and Sony uses this capability for NOTHING MORE THAN IT STATES then I think most people would have no problem with it. Sony could put everyone at ease by detailing how it will limit its use of the recorded content solely for TOS and law enforcement purposes unless it receives specific permission from the user(s) in question.
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R.J.Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:07:18 +0000http://www.gamefront.com/?p=252256#comment-401800@Phil
I had the same reaction. If I'm reading this correctly, I can see where this might be useful or even necessary since it seems like a way for Sony to try to curtail abuse. Like you said, I don't really mind if Sony wants to have a method for detecting and eliminating threatening behavior. And it reads like someone would have to report some sort of inappropriate behavior before Sony would actually do any of this. Most of the language is used in terms of protecting legal rights as opposed to marketing purposes, and as long as that remains the case, I can live with that.@Phil

I had the same reaction. If I’m reading this correctly, I can see where this might be useful or even necessary since it seems like a way for Sony to try to curtail abuse. Like you said, I don’t really mind if Sony wants to have a method for detecting and eliminating threatening behavior. And it reads like someone would have to report some sort of inappropriate behavior before Sony would actually do any of this. Most of the language is used in terms of protecting legal rights as opposed to marketing purposes, and as long as that remains the case, I can live with that.

Maybe now some peoples will think twice before saying anything they want…

]]>By: Phil Hornshawhttp://www.gamefront.com/sony-may-monitor-and-record-psn-voice-and-text-communications/#comment-401740
Phil HornshawMon, 11 Nov 2013 16:30:15 +0000http://www.gamefront.com/?p=252256#comment-401740This is interesting to me in contrast to what we've seen with Microsoft and the potential for monitoring. Here, Sony is saying basically that it reserves the right to look into content you create and share on PSN -- which makes sense, really. If you use a voice chat message to threaten another player, for example, Sony is saying it has the right to look at that message and take appropriate action. Same with game footage and what have you.
So "monitoring" isn't quite, perhaps, the right way to look at this. At least in the terms outlined above, Sony is using this capability to police its on Terms of Service. It needs this to enforce the rules. What's more, I subscribe to the "it's a privilege, not a right" line of thinking when it comes to things like PSN and Xbox Live. You don't have to use the service and when you do, you should expect to have less privacy than if you weren't using it. All that makes sense with me.
Where the contrast is with Microsoft comes back to that Kinect camera again. Here Sony is saying it'll use access to your content for rule enforcement, which is a lot less than what Microsoft has suggested it might do with user data (namely, sell it to third parties). Sony reserves that right as well, of course, but Sony STILL doesn't have an IR camera aimed into your living room, accompanied by a microphone, and Sony doesn't have a history of giving Skype chats to the NSA. So in a lot of fundamental ways, while this seems like a Big Brother scenario, it still isn't on the same level as what we've seen with Xbox One.This is interesting to me in contrast to what we’ve seen with Microsoft and the potential for monitoring. Here, Sony is saying basically that it reserves the right to look into content you create and share on PSN — which makes sense, really. If you use a voice chat message to threaten another player, for example, Sony is saying it has the right to look at that message and take appropriate action. Same with game footage and what have you.

So “monitoring” isn’t quite, perhaps, the right way to look at this. At least in the terms outlined above, Sony is using this capability to police its on Terms of Service. It needs this to enforce the rules. What’s more, I subscribe to the “it’s a privilege, not a right” line of thinking when it comes to things like PSN and Xbox Live. You don’t have to use the service and when you do, you should expect to have less privacy than if you weren’t using it. All that makes sense with me.

Where the contrast is with Microsoft comes back to that Kinect camera again. Here Sony is saying it’ll use access to your content for rule enforcement, which is a lot less than what Microsoft has suggested it might do with user data (namely, sell it to third parties). Sony reserves that right as well, of course, but Sony STILL doesn’t have an IR camera aimed into your living room, accompanied by a microphone, and Sony doesn’t have a history of giving Skype chats to the NSA. So in a lot of fundamental ways, while this seems like a Big Brother scenario, it still isn’t on the same level as what we’ve seen with Xbox One.